Research Interests

I research natural language processing (NLP) and learning about the world from text with minimal supervision. I apply modern NLP and machine learning techniques to the Web to learn how events and people interact. I am also interested in information extraction to help people better understand large amounts of text. I also model time: when events start, how long, and in what order they occur.

Student Collaboration

I am always open to advising undergraduate research. Come talk to me if you're interested. Topics ranging from social media like Twitter to intelligent systems that read the news are ripe for study.